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SB&CS - What Now?

Another full page artwork I did for the project.
The campaign has ended a week ago, and things seems to be calming down from the outside. But that’s not entirely true on the inside. Of course I don’t have to worry about promoting the campaign anymore, but now I gotta plan exactly how to use the stretch goals funds.
To complicate things, the conversion factor from my country’s currency and the dollar is varying a lot, and the conversion rate I will receive the dollar and the one I will use to pay international collaborators will be different (I will receive with a inferior rate than the one I will pay them with, so I have to calculate how this will affect the whole budget).

Fortunately, I can continue doing my own art since I won’t charge myself anything! Editing and proofreading should be done by July or so, I believe. At least the first pass before we lay the book out and send it to a new pass.

When the funds actually drop and I make the first round of payments, I can understand how much I will still be able to invest in the project to hire more artists. The funds will probably drop in a week or two I believe, so this will be soon. Due to the price of the dollar for us down here. I may have to focus more on Brazilian artists, but I will do what I can, especially as I already planned to commission a few more pieces from my international friends.

And, in the meantime, I am working on putting the Setting Toolkit for Sharp Swords & Sinister Spells text together. As I did with the setting for Solar Blades & Cosmic Spells, the text will have a series of strong elements and characteristics but a ton of tables to generate more specific contents and events. There will be about 10 human cultures with tables to generate events affecting them, traits of their people, typical names. A few more detailed places with tables to generate events, rumors, encounters. Other places where only the main characteristics and legends are defined with tools to generate what is really going on there. A small city toolkit for the main City-State of Mezzanthia and a few optional rules. Urban adventures are a passion of mine, and I would like to develop tools to facilitate them. So that will be in there also.

So that’s it. Things are still in motion and won’t stop until I put this book out as promised by December!

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